Hand dating-stamp.



PATENTED FEB. 27, 1906.

W. I. FOLLETT. HAND DATING STAMP. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 2a, 1903.

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WILBUR I. FOLLETT, OF MENDHAM, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TOFOLLETT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

HAND DATING-STAMP.

Patented Feb. 27, 1906.

Application filed August 28, 1903. Serial No. 171,141.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILBUR I. FoLLE'rT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mendham, county of Morris, State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hand Dating-Stamps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hand-stamps of a kind in which a gang of wheels mounted in a vertical moving frame is forced downwardly by a hand -operated plun er to secure an impression from the inked c aracters on the Wheels.

'In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation. Fig. 2 is a detail enlarged section showing the wheel-changing devices; Fig. 3, a side elevation, partly in-section, the frame being cut away Fig. 4, a view of the wheel-changing devices with the bracket for attachment to the wheel carrying frame; Fig. 5, a detail section on the line marked with arrows in Fig. 2.

The invention comprises the employment of monthand day wheels, which are operated in any appropriate manner, combined with independently-operable hour and minute wheels, the former of which may be changed by hand once each hour and the latter at intervals, as may be desiredsay once every fifteen minutes-and bears on its periphery the proper characters indicating the divisions of time with the a. m. and p. m. designations.

a is an ordinary supporting-frame in a tubular extension, from which reciprocates the hand-operated plunger I), normally held in an elevated position by an appropriate spring. At the lower end of the plunger and within the frame a is secured the wheel-frame c, which may be of any appropriate construction.

I) is the usual inking-pad, e the months wheel, and f and g the day-wheels, all mounted on an appropriate shaft it, carried in the frame 0, and adapted to be operated to brir g to the printing-point the required characters indicating the month and the re uired numbers of the day of the month. 11 the drawings these wheels are presumed to be operated by the conveniently-located hand-lever 71. They may, however, be turned in any suitable way. The hour-wheel 3', having the usual ratchet at the side, and the minutewheel' 7c, also having the usual ratchet, are mounted on the shaft h. The hour-wheel has on its periphery the characters indicating the hours from one to twelve. The minutewheel contains the characters p. m. and a. m., which by rotation of the wheel may be brought into appropriate relation at the printing-point with the numbers of the hour- Wheel. In addition to these characters the minute-wheel contains the characters p. m., 15 a. m., p. m., 30 a. m., p. m., 45 a. m.,'so that at the will of the operator the printed impression maybe made to indicate the time within periods of fifteen minutes-as, for instance, 1 p. m., 1.15 p. m., 1.30 p. m., 1.45 p. m., and similarly for the forenoon.

To actuate the hour and minute wheels, the following arran ement has been provided: Secured to tie wheel-frame c is a bracket m, to which is bolted a casing n, containing two channels, within which reciprocate handoperated plungers 0, normally held in an elevated position by spiral springs p. Each plunger at its lower end carries a pawl q, against the tail of which bears a coiled spring 1", seated in a cavity in the bottom part of the-plungers and which tends to throw the working end of the pawl into the depression in the ratchet or recessed part of the wheel.

Each time that the plunger is depressed the corresponding minute or hour wheel is carried forward one step. The pawl slips over the surface of the wheel as it rises to engage the neXt depression or ratchet-space, the vlvheel being then held by a detent or bankaw s.

P As seen in 5, the casing n has two longitudinal channels formed in it for each plunger, one for the plunger and the other for its spring p, the upper end of which is attached to a pin projecting from the bottom of the channel and the lower end to a pin projecting laterally from the lower end of the plunger 0. The plunger is secured in the channels by an angular cap-plate fastened by bolts at the side of the casing.

I claim as my invention- In a hand dating-machine, the combination with the supporting-frame, a plunger reciprocating therein and the Wheel-frame 5 channels, a plunger mounted in each plunger- VVILBURf IU'EQLHETT.

channel, a plunger-support SPIl Ug'fITIOHILt'Bd "v z Witnesses: in each spring channel and appropriately CHARLES WARN, eonnected to the casing and to its plunger, and J: .WIL IAM H. SEEK. 

